“Hive: 2024 Achievements, Current Funding Situation, and Plans” by Hive, Kevin Xia 🔸, SofiaBalderson

TL;DR: In this post, we cover Hive's achievements, plans for 2025, and how we would allocate additional funding to maximize our impact. Hive is a global community focused on empowering farmed animal advocates by fostering connections, resources, and collaboration. We are most well known for our Slack community and bi-weekly newsletter with movement updates, "Hive Highlights". 2024 Achievements: Hive now hosts 3,000+ advocates (up from 1,631 at the beginning of the year) and our engagement has grown into the most active Slack community in the broader EA Ecosystem (1000+ monthly active members)[1] We have logged 60+ High Impact Outcomes[2] this year through our programs. Our newsletter has grown to over 2,900 subscribers and over 50% open rate (up from 1261 in January 2024), offering timely updates and critical resources to advocates. This has been achieved with a budget of $240,000 on 4.5 FTE. Notably, one of our co-founders volunteered [...] ---Outline:(00:09) TL;DR:(03:12) Briefly, who we are:(04:39) What we have been up to:(04:42) In Key Metrics (2024)(06:05) In Testimonials (2024)(12:09) Strategic Focus 2025:(12:51) Objective 1: Grow Hive's reputation as a global hub for highly engaged farmed animal advocates who want to increase their impact(14:57) Objective 2: Provide high-value programs that increase the impact of our community members(15:54) Objective 3: The team has the support and resources  they need to execute Objectives 1 and 2(16:56) How our funding situation currently looks like:(19:44) What things cost:(20:19) Slack Fees (covered)(21:08) Very basic core Staff costs (covered)(21:52) Newsletters (expected to be covered)(22:50) Additional Staff (partially expected to be covered)(26:50) Our Uncertainties:(27:11) On Counterfactuality and Measuring Impact(29:11) On our approach(30:18) Appendix: FAQ(30:22) How do you plan to sustain growth without losing community value, and have you reached a saturation point in membership?(31:50) Don’t you just get all your funding from a large funder like Open Philanthropy?(32:22) Isn’t Hive a US or Western-based community?The original text contained 17 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 13th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/iqqyAQ2NqQcmn9CZs/hive-2024-achievements-current-funding-situation-and-plans --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.